Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-08-12

I c NHlthBo ANARCHISTS nave pluNeu luelI
last card and lost the game. The supreme
court Of Illinois has decided that they must
be hanged, though the decision will not he
officially promulgated until next month
The new American yacht Volunteer in
several contests last week aud this, has
shown herself possessed Of speed surpass-
ing that Of the Mayhower, Puritan and
Priscilla marking her as prominently the
boat to contest with the ar-famcd "Ths-
tie for the Americas cup in the approach
ing international race.
At the state election in Kentucky last
week the Republicans came near cecting
their candidate for governor, and at one
time the Republican nominee claimed that
he had been elected, but it turned out that
the Democratic candidate was chosen by
plurality Of few thousand against the
forty TO sixty thousand that the party used
to pile up The result was mostly owing
to local and personal issues but it caused a
healthy scare for the Democrats, neverthu-
less.
The Georgia people feel illat ease over the
color line issue in the public schools. While
the Glenn bill passed the lower house al
most unanimously, there is an evident re
greet that the matter has come to the surface
in its present form, since it is seen that the
enactment Of a law making the coGduca-
ton Of the races a criminal offence would
arouse an Indignation at the north that
would react disastrously, not only upon the
interests of that state, but upon the entire
Democratic party. The probability now is
that the bill will be killed in the Senate.
We publish elsewhere the address to the
governor issued by the master Of the state
grange-to which we made allusion last
week-recting the fact that arbitrary and
unjust determinations are practiced by the
railroads against citizens of the state and
asking for the employment of counsel in
behalf of the state at the hearing before
the interstate commerce commission to be
held Sept LIST. The terms and purposes of
the address commend it to a respectful
hearing, and it is understood that Gov.
Ormsbee is disposed to give cordial re-
Spouse to the appeal.
Justice has been vindicated after a fash
ion, by the prompt conviction of the eleven
Chicago "boodlers," who have been tried
together. Seven of them were sentenced
to imprisonment for two years and four to
pay fines of $1,000 each. This does not
seem like heavy punishment, but it is better
than nothing. If Warden McGarigle can
be brought back from Canada and made to
serve out his sentence, there will have been
no mishap in these cases, and in any event
the people and courts of Chicago are en-
titled to some credit for not allowing these
trials to become farce.
Dispatches received from the explorer
Stanley, dated June 1S, show that the re
cent report of his death was mere inven-
ton. At the outset of his journey up the
Congo he found the country famine stricken
and was hard pressed for supplies but he
eked out his slender store with hippopota-
mus meat, and kept moving in the teeth of
famine, lack of fuel, and dsaffection up to
the point of mutiny. He has now reached
the most dangerous part of his journey.
Between him and Wadelai lie more than 300
miles to he traversed through 200, 600 of
the fiercest fighting men, ms he says, in all
Africa but he is not unprepared for the
dangers which he is likely to meet
New York has a new law under which
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population of 10000 or over are required
to be preceded by fair and open notice of
at least "A week Voting must be by ballot.
and "A poll list must be kept, while watchers
are allowed to each candidate. Caucuses
must be held open from forty-five minutes
to an hour and a half, according to the vote.
The credentials are to be according to n de
fined form and placed with the poll list in
the hands of the chairman of the county
committee. The working of this new and
apparently commendable law will be watch
ed with much interest during the approach
ing campaign.
Prohibition has been defeated in Texas by
n heavy majority, as was to have been ex-
pected but it is not improbable that the
fierce battle waged over it has introduced
fatal discord into the Democratic party of
that state. The contest was waged with
true southern vigor and passion, and it has
left deep marks behind. The Democratic
prohibition leaders vow vengeance, and will
demand prohibition plank in the party
platform or secede. In that case they may
join the third party, or possibly unite with
the Republicans on the strength of pro
hibtion bargain. In either case the result
will help to break up the old Democratic
solidity and inaugurate a new political era
in that state.
MILFORD Woodruff, president of the Nor
mon apostles, has issued letter announcing
that, "as upon two former occasions in our
history, the duty and responsibility of pre-
siding over and directing the affairs of the
church of Jesus Christ in all the world de
wolves upon the twelve apostles until new
president has been chosen to take the place
of the late President Taylor This pronun-
ciamento is interpreted as pushing the ques-
ton of the succession to the presidency into
the future and it is not unlikely that the
contest for supremacy between the two
wings of the church may hold the apostles
in power until the death of Woodruff, who
is now 80 years of age and has been hiding
from the officers of the law for two years.
Michigan's newly amended scientific TEN
perance instruction law, which takes effect
Sept 9th, provides that instruction shall be-
given in physiology and hygiene, with spec
ial reference to the effects of stimulants and
narcotics upon the human system that the
instruction shall be given by textbook,
where the pupil is able to read, and as thor
oughly as any other studies pursued in tn,
school that the books must first be APPROX
ed by the state board of education and
that the school board shall be subject to fine
or forfeiture for failing to comply with the
provisions of the act. This law applies t.,
all schools in the state, whether incorporat
ed under special charter or under the gene
raj law.
Thomas q. Mooney, the dynamter who
recently attempted to destroy the British,
steamer Queen, at New York, has been
pronounced insane and committed TO the
Wards Island asylum The London police
claim that Mooney is the fellow who caused
the explosions at the Glasgow gas works il,
1882, when several Of his accomplices were
imprisoned, and was also concerned in the
explosion of the local government and
Times offices. For this latter outrage an
accomplish named McDermott was impris-
oned Moonev than esranad 10 A,,a.i.,